Friday My Town Shoot-out – Stairs (or ladders)

I have some brilliant (he said modestly) photos of stairs in a Victorian house we lived in. In black-and-white, they are among the photos in the loft that haven’t been scanned into the computer yet. And you should see my loft – it’s up a ladder and I’m not brilliant at managing those nowadays – at least, not with my hands full. So I’m going to cheat and instead of stairs I’m going to show you some ladders I’ve found recently – after all, they are simply the forerunners of stairs…

A ladder stile - Lleyn peninsula, N Wales

Ladder at the Ambleside Mill on Stock Ghyll (now the Giggling Goose restaurant about which I’ll blog another day)

This climbing frame is called Jacob's Ladder.

Ladder stairs in Otterton Mill, Devon

Notice requesting the public not to use the stairs at Otterton Mill.

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Match

This week's challenge is to match a quotation with a picture from one's town. I've chosen, once again to use the Outer Hebrides where I'm holidaying with GB.

“Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard.” - 
Susan Jeffers

"I see myself as a boy playing on the sea's shore. Now and then finding a smoother or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Small, Medium,Large

It's a long time since I did a blog posting for the Friday My Town Shoot-out. Hopefully I shall get back into some sort of routine.

Photo taken on the beach a few yards from my brother's house in the Outer Hebrides.

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Weird

This week's subject for the Friday My Town Shoot-out is "Weird" .  I've gone for an animal theme!

A weird elephant in Chester Cathedral.  This bench end was carved by a medieval craftsman who obviously hadn't seen an elephant.

Simply weird - at Plas Newydd.

Half a lion - is that weird or what?

A Penguin in West Kirby

A Hippo in Chester Cathedral

And a Superlambanana - thanks for the suggestion, Monica.

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Macro

This week's subject for the Friday My Town Shoot-out is "macro" chosen by JarieLyn


I think some of these should more properly be called close-ups rather than macro but I trust you'll forgive me. I'm also sorry that there is not much of a 'my town' flavour about them. My imagination was not up to scratch this week.

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Red

This week's subject for the Friday My Town Shoot-out is "Red".  This is a selection from 2010.

A pillar box in Birkenhead.

 A boat on Heswall shore.

Roses in Ashton Park, West Kirby.

And at Errdig Hal.

A Macaw's wing - Colwyn Bay Zoo.

On New Brighton Pier.


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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Flora, Fauna and Pets

This week's Friday My Town Shoot-out is - Flora, Fauna and Pets by Sarah from the Pacific North-west.

Cherry

Common Blue butterfly on Sea Holly

Polytrichum and Thuidium species of mosses.

Azure Hawker dragonfly

Red Fox

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Stripes and Lines

This week's Friday My Town Shoot-out is Stripes and Lines.

These stripes are caused by the RAF's Red Arrows.

These lines were created by opening the camera shutter at night in the car and weaving it around at the street and car lights.

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Friday My Town Shoot-out - Smells

This week's subject for the Friday My Town Shoot-out is smells - chosen by NanU from Aubiere, France

This is a smell I don't like - Large White caterpillars chewing on cabbage.  Yuck.

Bread, fresh out of the bread-maker is the opposite extreme - Mmmmmm..

Lamb pilaf cooking away on the stove.

You can smell when it's snowing.

Seaweed is one of the main constituents of the smell of the sea-shore.

Toadstools like this Wood Blewit smell wonderful.

Freshly ground coffee is a top ten smell.

Apple and cinnamon - yum.

And who can resist the smell of chocolate?

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